Why subsea cables are essential to business resilience [Q&A]
While businesses focus on cloud services and digital transformation, they often don't realize that their operations depend on the massive cable networks laid underwater.
Recent incidents have highlighted how critical these subsea cables are for business continuity, so do businesses need to rethink their approach to infrastructure as a result? We spoke to Sharat Sinha, director and CEO of Airtel Business to find out.
AI growth drives demand for more data center bandwidth
The rapid growth of AI workloads is driving a major transformation in data center network infrastructure according to a new study from Ciena.
The research, conducted by Censuswide, surveyed more than 1,300 data center decision makers across 13 countries. 53 percent of respondents believe AI workloads will place the biggest demand on data center interconnect (DCI) infrastructure over the next two to three years, more than cloud computing (51 percent) and big data analytics (44 percent).
IBM brings optics into the data center to save energy and boost speed
When we think of optical technology it tends to be in terms of transmitting data over long distances. Today IBM is unveiling a breakthrough in optics technology that for the first time puts the speed and power of fiber optics inside servers and onto circuit boards.
Using a new process that replaces electrical wires with optical waveguides,this effectively enables chip connectivity at the speed of light.